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The CPython Developer's Guide

This guide covers how to contribute to CPython. It is known by the nickname of "the devguide" by the Python core developers.

The official home of this guide is https://devguide.python.org.

Compilation

For the compilation of the devguide, you need to use a version of Python which supports the venv module, because the make html command will create a virtual environment and will install the Sphinx package: